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Good names of characters in games?Which character from a Spectrum game had a really good name? Were any of them particularly cool or were they all a bit silly like Miner Willy, Monty…
Which character from a Spectrum game had a really good name?
Were any of them particularly cool or were they all a bit silly like Miner Willy, Monty Mole, Dynamite Dan etc? -
searching for a gameHi, I?m searching for a game that i used to play when I was a kid but i can?t remember the name. It would be gratefull if you could help me. Things …
... i remember :
The main character is a man and a ... -
Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
... , so you can choose your character's starting state. Do you ... Expert).
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Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
I was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very annoying movement comes up because of slow loop code.
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Q: MakeTZX problemsHello all, I am having problems with MakeTZX. I sent an e-mail to RamSoft, but have not had a reply. Can anyone help? The details follow. I am h…
Most accurate conversion?There have been lots of threads about the "best" conversion to the Speccy, but which is the most accurate? Not necessarily in terms of graphics, as t…
... count as it's got character movement. So while it's ...Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... the top line of a character square. So that the '9 ...Looking for a gameHi there. I vaguely remember this one game. It's a kind of an usual flip-screen shooter/maze/adventure. You control an astronaut and guide him throug…
... I'm not sure). Your character controls just like in Jetpac ...BRIDGEND: 128K +2 (Light Grey) and 3 boxfulls of Games.I whent to a well known carboot sale in Cardiff today (Splot Market) and came across a bloke selling a 128K =2 (light Grey) with power supply e.t.c. …
... the Caped Crusader", "Chase HQ", "Double Draggon II", "Edd The Duck ...little quiz......name the game..1/ featured men on horseback...forest of fangrim ring a bell? 2/featured man zaping you end of game with the words x amount of screens visited 3/a pa…
... n dave sang about this character..
6/primary dose of ...tips on optimizing assemblyI wrote a small routine to rotate right a whole screen character line complete with attributes. This is my third ever assembly routine, so I guess i…
... rotate right a whole screen character line complete with attributes.
help with a gameerrr yeah, ermmm all i know about this one is that Chas and Dave sang a song about the character. errmmmmm it wasn't steve davies's snooker, or bange…
errr yeah, ermmm all i know about this one is that Chas and Dave sang a song about the character. errmmmmm it wasn't steve davies's snooker, or bangers and mash.
ummmm, cheers.Something I've been pondering on...... is why Spectrum BASIC includes both PRINT and LPRINT. Likewise, why include LIST and LLIST - When it appeared Sinclair were running out of space…
... out of space in the character set and LPRINT can be ...Sinclair User Double Hits 2 (Issue 101)Looking at the TZX in the archive I see that at the end of side 1 there is the game Zanthrax which isn't mentioned in the database as being on the ta…
Looking at the TZX in the archive I see that at the end of side 1 there is the game Zanthrax which isn't mentioned in the database as being on the tape.
What's odd about this is that the game Zanthrax was originally on a Crash covertape and ...Fun with MAMEI'm having a look at history.dat, an add-on for Mame containing history, trivia and tricks about the games. Here are some funny/bizarre bits I found …
... Mame containing history, trivia and tricks about the games. Here are ...Xevious release dateI swear I played the Spectrum conversion of this arcade classic during Christmas 1986, and there's an advert for it in 1986 Spectrum magazines, but o…
... before, or is mind playing tricks on me (yet) again?BETA Test in Progress[url]http://www.delhez.demon.nl/[/url] BETA release 13A provides a handy token key for the popular quote character. Also, performance will improve …
... key for the popular quote character. Also, performance will improve by ... Z80 // plus 8k more (for character sets)
Allocate 32k of ...25.anniversary party?on April 2007, spectrum will be 25 years old. Will there be a quarter century party for our beloved spectrum? It's good to plan ahead, I wanted to r…
... /> oops.. ok it's a double post, but an important one ...What are your favorite Spectrum games?[FONT="System"][/FONT] If anybody has asked this question before, please forgive me as I'm new to the WorldofSpectrum forums, but what are your favo…
... ;Renegade, Rebel Star Raiders (great character names, like Luke Solo), Starquake ...Top 25 PlatformersAt Retro Gamer we love feedback from readers and are constantly looking for ways to integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine. Anyway,…
... places that no other gaming character can reach? Let us know ...My thoughts on the new Harry Potter BookI think that Snape is double crossing Voldermorte and will eventually help Harry Potter to kill him, and in so doing will be killed himself, I don't …
I think that Snape is double crossing Voldermorte and will eventually ...Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
... time from the specified
character array. See scanf() for full ...Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... hardcode two screens and say "double buffering only".
2 ...Anyone remember this game?It's a long shot but maybe someone remembers this game. The only thing I can remember about it was that it was side scrolling platform/adventure typ…
... remember was that the main character was a worm or a ... point in the game the character turns into a worm and ...Does anyone know the title of this game?I was so succesful last time I asked about a game thanks to this forum that I thought I'd try again. The game I'm trying to remember is single scree…
... 's head as the main character. Anyone remember it?Little Britain the Computer Game wouldnt be out of place on the speccyI was told that a little britain was coming out on the PC/PS2 and had a search and it is indeed. After reading what its about it is in fact just 8 m…
... up in the park, doing tricks and collect as many CDs ...Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...Questions answered under my hardware post; apologies for the double post.
Questions answered under my hardware post; apologies for the double post.Mode 2 Tile Editor SourceA Timex Mode 2 Tile Editor incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from the WoS archive. …
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call cp16bytes ; copy first character row
ld bc,$07e0 ... ,bc ; point hl at next character row
call cp16bytes ; copy ... second character row
ret ; return
Little character trouble with BASinWell, I'm having some trouble loading fonts into the speccy with BASIC, using BASin r13 for an easier job. When I run code, such as this example... …
Well, I'm having some trouble loading fonts into the speccy with BASIC, using BASin r13 for an easier job. When I run code, such as this example...
[CODE]
60 RESTORE 70
70 FOR F=15616 TO 16383: READ A: POKE F,A: NEXT F
70 ...World of abusive drunks - share your abusive drunk stories. :)One time when I was getting the bus home from town, two really drunk women got on and started singing really obnoxiously loudly. Then, considering th…
... and round."
The double-take the woman did was ...
